Monthly Archives: January 2026

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 8 – NFS and Samba data backups using restic
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5 January 2026

Actually, almost everything regarding my home NAS setup has been done – there is VPN access from various networks, different shares are available, and the security has been slightly tuned. Two main things remain: monitoring and backups. Having a ZFS mirror on two disks with regular ZFS snapshots is, of course, great, but it is… Read More »

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TCP/IP: SYN flood attack on the RTFM server, and “Hacker News hug of death”
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2 January 2026

Got an alert from the monitoring system this morning, indicating that the blog is down: Well, I thought: another one DDoS, not the first time. Investigating the issue I went to the Cloudflare admin, enabled the Under Attack Mode, and started the investigation. Checked the requests: I think, okay, it’s simple – requests are coming… Read More »

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